and she was...

and she was lying in the grass, and she could hear the highway breathing

I was talking with a massage therapist from Self, Texas the other day and she mentioned the Susan G Komen Foundation...the Texas nonprofit dedicated to fighting breast cancer..or so we thought...it seems when it comes to women's health, things get a little fuzzy..the buzz created was a teabagger member of the Komen group pushed to stop funding for Planned Parenthood...the lady is a Christian conservative who doesn't support Planned Parenthood because of the abortion issue..

The origins of Planned Parenthood date to 1916 when Margaret Sanger, her sister and a friend opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York. It resulted in her being jailed. In 1938, the clinic was organized into the American Birth Control League, which became part of the only national birth control organization in the US until the 1960s, but the title was found too offensive and "against families" so the League began discussions for a new name. By 1941, the organization was operating 222 centers and had served 49,000 clients. By 1942 the League had become part of what became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

I knew a guy once who was as anti-abortion as they get..I worked with him on my shift and he'd give out bibles to us...on his days off we'd hear he'd spend time at the local Planned Parenthood over on Laguna St. I think it was, chaining himself to cars in the parking lot and lying down to protest abortions...he was a very nice guy who was very committed to his God and his religion...and also very naive...

so the Komen Foundation hired this teabagger gal and she started injecting her politics into women's health issues...and of course the conservative presidential candidates chimed right in standing behind her...Rick Santorum says if you get raped, you should have the baby!!!
then after a public wupping, Karen Handel, the chubby gal from Texas, resigned from the foundation and funding was restored to PP...

but this is part of the problem with nonprofits..when the money comes in so quick, people lose sight of the intended mission and instead of provided money for real services, they become a PAC....and this is why non-profits should not be tax-exempt...

now, I get the fervor over abortion...I would love to see them stopped but not at the expense of personal freedom...and you won't stop abortions by chaining yourself to cars, or teaching abstinence only in schools....or bombing abortion clinics...or acting stupid...

broken cisterns hold no water....